About Mother's Health and Lifestyle data The purpose of the Mother's Health and Lifestyle module is to generate interactive statistics and maps of mother's healthy and lifestyle data. The intended audience is researchers, public health officials, students, and the general public. The Mother's Health and Lifestyle module originates from two different datasets: Birth certificates and death certificates. If maternal death is selected as the indicator then all the maternal demographic data originates from the death certificate. All other indicators use birth certificate demographic data. Users can select year, race, ethnicity, age, marital status, region, and health and lifestyle variables. These same variables can be further restricted in the drop down boxes. Rates are per 1000 live births for all indicators. For both datasets the data is residents of South Carolina and users can select the region of analysis. If the zip code was coded as outside of the state then the zip code is recoded as missing. Users can generate on-the-fly maps and tables of the frequencies, rates, and percentages along with trendlines and bar charts of the selected data. When rates have been selected 95% Confidence intervals can also be generated in the tables. The interpretation of tables and maps is the users responsibility. Many supporting pages are provided with definitions, examples of rate calculations, Division of Biostatistics and Health GIS contact information, and frequently asked questions to assist the user in interpreting this data. Rates with small numbers are unreliable and should be used cautiously.